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David Barriopedro is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Their recent publications highlight ongoing contributions to understanding climate-related phenomena and atmospheric dynamics. Key papers include:

  • "Heat Waves: Physical Understanding and Scientific Challenges" (2023) published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate" (2021) in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "Northern Hemisphere blocking simulation in current climate models: evaluating progress from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 to 6 and sensitivity to resolution" (2020) in Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula" (2022) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves" (2020) in Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Journal of Climate

They have collaborated repeatedly with several researchers including Ricardo García-Herrera, José M. Garrido-Pérez, Carlos Ordóñez, Ricardo M. Trigo, and Sancho Salcedo-Sanz. These collaborations have contributed to advancing various themes within atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe

    David Barriopedro;Erich M. Fischer;Jürg Luterbacher;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • A Climatology of Northern Hemisphere Blocking

    David Barriopedro;Ricardo García-Herrera;Anthony R. Lupo;Emiliano Hernández

  • Blocking and its Response to Climate Change

    Tim Woollings;David E. Barriopedro;John Methven;Seok-Woo Son

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • The Outstanding 2004/05 Drought in the Iberian Peninsula: Associated Atmospheric Circulation

    Ricardo García-Herrera;Daniel Paredes;Ricardo M. Trigo;Isabel Franco Trigo

  • Heat Waves: Physical Understanding and Scientific Challenges

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  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • The 2009/10 Drought in China: Possible Causes and Impacts on Vegetation

    David Barriopedro;Célia M. Gouveia;Ricardo M. Trigo;Lin Wang

  • Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate

    Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Jascha Lehmann;David Barriopedro;Stefan Rahmstorf;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • European temperature responses to blocking and ridge regional patterns

    Pedro M. Sousa;Ricardo M. Trigo;David Barriopedro;David Barriopedro;Pedro M. M. Soares

  • Application of blocking diagnosis methods to General Circulation Models. Part I: a novel detection scheme

    D. Barriopedro;D. Barriopedro;R. García-Herrera;R. M. Trigo

  • Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Climate in Medieval Times Revisited

    Henry F. Diaz;Ricardo Trigo;Malcolm K. Hughes;Michael E. Mann

  • Large-scale temperature response to external forcing in simulations and reconstructions of the last millennium

    L. Fernández-Donado;J.F. González-Rouco;C.C. Raible;C.M. Ammann

  • The intense 2007-2009 drought in the Fertile Crescent: Impacts and associated atmospheric circulation

    Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo;Célia M. Gouveia;Célia M. Gouveia;David Barriopedro

  • Effect of the climate shift around mid 1970s on the relationship between wintertime Ural blocking circulation and East Asian climate.

    Lin Wang;Wen Chen;Wen Chen;Wen Zhou;Johnny C. L. Chan

  • Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula

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  • June 2017: The Earliest European Summer Mega-heatwave of Reanalysis Period

    A. Sánchez‐Benítez;A. Sánchez‐Benítez;R. García‐Herrera;R. García‐Herrera;D. Barriopedro;P. M. Sousa

  • The European 2016/17 Drought

    Ricardo García-Herrera;Jose M. Garrido-Perez;David Barriopedro;Carlos Ordóñez

  • Solar modulation of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking

    David Barriopedro;David Barriopedro;Ricardo García-Herrera;Radan Huth

  • Northern Hemisphere blocking simulation in current climate models: evaluating progress from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 to 6 and sensitivity to resolution

    Reinhard Schiemann;Panos Athanasiadis;David Barriopedro;Francisco Doblas-Reyes;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • The state of climate in NW Iberia

    M. Gómez-Gesteira;L. Gimeno;M. deCastro;M. N. Lorenzo

  • Responses of European precipitation distributions and regimes to different blocking locations

    Pedro M. Sousa;Ricardo M. Trigo;David Barriopedro;David Barriopedro;Pedro M. M. Soares

  • On the Relationship between ENSO, Stratospheric Sudden Warmings, and Blocking

    David Barriopedro;Natalia Calvo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo García-Herrera
Ricardo García-Herrera Complutense University of Madrid
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Raquel Nieto
Raquel Nieto Universidade de Vigo
Luis Gimeno
Luis Gimeno Universidade de Vigo
Alexandre M. Ramos
Alexandre M. Ramos University of Lisbon
Célia M. Gouveia
Célia M. Gouveia Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Elena Xoplaki
Elena Xoplaki University of Giessen
Margarida L. R. Liberato
Margarida L. R. Liberato University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council

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